Also known as The Warlords. This is a chinese movie starring Jet Li. It circles around three blood brothers (Jet Li one of them) and their struggle in the midst of war. Apparently based on “The Assassination of Ma” which took place during the Qing dynasty (1644-1911) in China and was about the killing of badass general Ma Xinyi.

The movie fucking sucked. Well, maybe not all bad but almost. First of all, chinese spoken language isn’t nearly as badass as for example japanese. Second of all, it was hard keeping up with all the struggles between the bandits, the various generals, and of coure there were a bit too many slow-paced scenes.

Of course you have your giant battles with like… millions of blood-thirsty soldiers fighting for their lives. And yes, Jet Li opens a can of whuppass on most of them; but he’s not that invincible ultra-hardcore motherfucking badass as you’re used to see him. It may be because the movie was supposed to be based on an actual historical event, but what do I know…

For a movie being a bit over 2 god damn hours there were way to little blood. It’s not one of Jet Li’s better performances, so you can safely skip this one without having any bad Oh-my-god-I-missed-a-Jet-Li-movie-conscience.

Or, I may have a better idea in store for you. Borrow this one on DVD. Watch the epic battles (they are astonishing, although you have the same why-the-hell-do-I-use-129879000-cameras-and-cut-shit-together-syndrome making you perceive almost jack shit) and then fast-forward through the boring parts. That should do it. Then you have yourself a mutilating Jet Li (and two other chinese dudes) going fucking berserk on like million of other chinese dudes.

(If you liked this you should probably catch the first screen adaptation of the story too.)